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To Milroy From John L. Zeigler Nov 7 1862

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After my compliments to you
and all your officers, I acknowledge the receipt of yours
dated Oct 25th/62. It would give me much pleasure to
accommodate your friend in his wishes with regard to
the chaplaincy of my Regiment. Had I not sent in a
petition to the Governor recommending another person for said
position, I will say if the man for which I have made
application does not succeed, that Samuel Young will be
the next man. I am very grateful to you for the favor
you have confered upon us by aiding us in coming to this place.
Not on my own account but my Regt was reduced and it
was necessary that it should recrute up in order that it
might be made more beneficial to the service. I have received
some twenty five or thirty recruits since I came here and I
am in hopes we will be able to fill up in a short time.
We have done considerable scouting since we came here and
could I had the help which I should have had I would have made
a good thing of it, but Col. Craney, when I sent to him for two
companies did not send them and failed to ketch the “Rebs”.
I will go on and try to ketch them myself. We have had
a small scrape with the infernal scamps, my men killed

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After my compliments to you
and all your officers, I acknowledge the receipt of yours
dated Oct 25th/62. It would give me much pleasure to
accommodate your friend in his wishes with regard to
the chaplaincy of my Regiment. Had I not sent in a
petition to the Governor recommending another person for said
position, I will say if the man for which I have made
application does not succeed, that Samuel Young will be
the next man. I am very grateful to you for the favor
you have confered upon us by aiding us in coming to this place.
Not on my own account but my Regt was reduced and it
was necessary that it should recrute up in order that it
might be made more beneficial to the service. I have received
some twenty five or thirty recruits since I came here and I
am in hopes we will be able to fill up in a short time.
We have done considerable scouting since we came here and
could I had the help which I should have had I would have made
a good thing of it, but Col. Craney, when I sent to him for two
companies did not send them and failed to ketch the “Rebs”.
I will go on and try to ketch them myself. We have had
a small scrape with the infernal scamps, my men killed

This item is owned by the Jasper County Public Library. Permission to publish or reproduce this item is required and must be obtained from the Director of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana. Please visit www.myjcpl.org for more information.